When scientists saw greener vegetation in satellite images of drylands around the world, they began searching for a cause. Some proposed the extra color could be due to increased precipitation, but the two were not always found...

In the future, the effects of greenhouse gas emissions on the Earth will largely be determined by the capacity of the ocean to absorb carbon dioxide. Until recently, however, scientists did not have a good way of...

When conservation priorities for tropical forests are set, old-growth forests that show no sign of human disturbance often come out ahead of secondary forests. In a new study, an international team of researchers measured 168,000 trees in...

Continued global warming and rises in carbon dioxide levels have many effects on marine life, including a condition called hypercapnia which renders fish disoriented and seemingly “intoxicated,” unable to navigate correctly or determine where predators are. Hypercapnia...

While carbon footprint has previously been calculated for each ZIP code in the nation, a release from University of California at Berkeley reveals that carbon footprint has also been estimated on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood scale for the San...

While dense ocean water has a high capacity to store carbon dioxide, University of Cambridge researchers reveal, in a release, that it was not simply a decrease in density that caused a large release of carbon dioxide...

Coastal marshes are complex systems, critical to the health of the environment. Whether they will be able to adjust to climate change, including sea level rise, has been a subject of great concern for many scientists. However,...

It is commonly assumed that the higher the percentage of land is forest, the better a carbon sink it is. But as researchers explain in a release from the USDA Forest Service – Northern Research Station, that...

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